Keeping in touch
Illegal or not, there were obviously many transistor radios smuggled into Lancaster Park yesterday. Players in the match between Canterbury and Northern Districts were obviously bemused when twice within a few minutes there was considerable cheering from a large proportion of the spectators.
They were echoing their counterparts at Palmerston North and Auckland as Warren Lees (Otago, against Central Districts) and John Wiltshire (for Auckland, at Wellington’s expense) reached centuries from the last deliveries of their teams* seventy-fifth and last overs.
After the Canterbury innings, an announcement was made over the public address system asking that radio volumes be turned down because they were affecting the players’ and umpires’ concentration.
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Press, 4 January 1978, Page 30
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